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- Title
BREXIT, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM SINCE 1997.
- Authors
CHRISTOU, VASSILIKI; Vogin, F.
- Abstract
In this paper I shed light on Brexit as a crisis of representative democracy in Britain. Brexit is, to some extent, the result of a representational crisis; simultaneously it is a factor causing further destabilisation and disintegration of representative institutions. The institutional thinking underpinning Brexit illustrates a tendency to return to an earlier, less mature form of representation, "mandate representation", and to depart from the post-war model of what I call "party representation". I tried to show how a path to Brexit started being charted since 1997 on an institutional level by the constitutional reforms of Tony Blair, whereas constitutional reform since 2010 has further shifted the balance towards direct democracy. In this light, I tried to read Miller as an effort to restore the role of Parliament as a deliberative forum in a context of a dynamically evolving direct relationship between the People and the executive power.
- Subjects
BRITISH withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020; DEMOCRACY; CONSTITUTIONAL reform; POLITICAL stability; EXECUTIVE power
- Publication
European Review of Public Law, 2018, Vol 30, Issue 3, p833
- ISSN
1105-1590
- Publication type
Article